The Blackwater Reckoning

When a controversial mining permit threatens the Blackwater River, newly minted legal intern Elara Finch joins a high-stakes environmental lawsuit against Ironwood Mining. But when the company’s charismatic CEO is found dead on the eve of the trial, Elara uncovers a web of buried secrets linking the case to a brutal boarding school hazing two decades earlier. As past and present collide, she must untangle a knot of privilege, revenge, and environmental decay to expose a killer—and a truth that could poison an entire community.